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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is consulting on the implementation of new and revised Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Values (IOELVs) for thirty-one chemical substances to help protect workers from the ill-health effects of exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace. This implementation of Directive 2017/164/EU introduces this as the 4th list of IOELVs.

This consultation relates to the IOSH collective response to the HSE regarding the above changes.

Following the Grenfell Tower disaster, the Government has commissioned this Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, led by Dame Judith Hackitt, which is now calling for evidence. Its terms of reference are found in Annex A and a list of regulatory system documents (not intended to be comprehensive) in Annex B.

The Global Reporting Initiative has provided an international framework for sustainability reporting for many years, the most used such framework in the world, and has recently converted it into a standard. It is now consulting on the health and safety content (GRI 403).

The scope of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry will be fixed by its Terms of Reference, which the Inquiry Team is now consulting on. It has outlined a non-exhaustive list of areas it may cover. It aims to ascertain the causes of the tragedy and ensure that the appropriate lessons are learnt.

The draft international standard ISO 45001.2 (Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use) has been edited by the ISO Secretariat and sent to all National Standards Bodies (NSB) for translation. Once translation is complete, the next public consultation will take place from 19 May 2017.